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Speed, that’s what standard is all about right now. If you can’t stabilize by turn 4 or 5 you’re probably going to have your face smashed in against Goblin Bidding or Ravager Affinity. The deck that best stabilizes against Ravager Affinity is Slide/Rift. Here’s a quick decklist of what a normal Slide/Rift deck will look like:

-Another board sweeper, obviously this is needed in a control deck. The best part about it is you can cycle it if you draw it when you don’t need it. Very good against White Weenie, get rid of those Savannah Lions

There is one problem with this deck and it is that it loses to other control decks. In a control heavy environment this deck will do very poorly. Against other control decks the key is to get more mana than they can, because it will come down to who has more Decree of Justice